Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-04-06
for taste, and there are women to
supply that demand, but you cannot

supply that demand, but you cannot
find them in the w. G. T. u.
The strongest and broadest men,
all over the South, say Woman's bal
lot is the only hope for the homes of
the nation. I rarely make an ad-
dress, that some distinguished man
does not say to me Prohibition will
never. become national until woman
has the ballot"
Read your Legislative and Con-
gressiOnal reports, and see how en-
tirely home interests are ignored,
and saloon interests legislated for.
During the session of the last Leg
islature, some member from the up
country offered a bill that would pre-
vent the sale of tobacco in any form
to boys. Some other States have
passed it. But the Senator thought
it impracticable, because in order to
distinguish boys from men, it would
be necessary for them to carry around
with them the family register.
Amazing! not to be able to tell a boy
from a man without the family reg
lister. ......
To belong to the w. G. T. U. you
may or may not believe in Woman's
suffrage. Some Northern States in
their constitutions oppose it. The
majority never bring it up for dis
cussion. We have our individual
opinion on that subject, as on any
other. I myself, think there is too
much suffrage and it is unequally
distributed. I think an educational
qualification should be required, and
only people who can intelligently
vote, whether they be male or female,
should be allowed to do so.
I believe too, that women ought to
be put on school boards in South Car
Olina as in some other States. They
know far better than men, the posi-
bilities of children. 1t is really pa
thetic to see children in our primary
schools, weeping over some of the
books given them to study. Why,
they do not even appear in the "Con-
gressional report of the books sup
piled to Congressman"
I think it would be a great deal
more manly for some Editors to fight
whisky than to be fighting women,
whose one aim is to help poor fallen
humanity, and it is nothing less than
arrant coWardice to take shelter un-
der an editorial 'We' and attack
women, unless they allow the attack
ed to defend themselves.
OF course, as a w. G. T. U. woman,
I am entitled to think as I please,
and I please to think it would be a
great blessing to the nation if the
ballot could be taken from a great
many men who do not deserve it,
and given to great many women
who do.
I believe in qualified suffrage, ir-
respective of sex but / don't ask our
women to endorse suffrage, or break
up their unions because of it. have
never endorsed suffrage in a single
speech, but I don't believe it is dis.
graceful and blasphemous, and all
that sort of thing.
Ifa woman can rule over the Brit
ish Nation, surely an American Wo-
man ought to be allowed to say
whether or not saloon keeper shall
put his miserable pit-fall where her
boy will fall into it. And they will
have the privilege before very long,
for the broadest viewed men all over
the nation, say as Rev. Atticus Hay
good did, after one of my talks,
mrs. Chaplin, you must ask that the
women be allowed to say by their
ballots whether the saloon or the
home shall exist. The saloon will
never down until it is showed under
by the pure white ballots of women
and the sooner you women recognize
this fact, and ask for the ballot, the
better it will be for the nation"
8. F. CHAPLIN.